A skill your agent uses when positioning a SIGMOD submission against the data-management literature, covering coverage across SIGMOD/PACMMOD, PVLDB, ICDE, TODS, and PODS lines, decades-deep systems…

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Install Sigmod Related Work

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill sigmod-related-work -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills sigmod-related-work --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/SIGMOD-Skills/skills/sigmod-related-work .claude/skills/sigmod-related-work && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
sigmod-related-work
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
717 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when positioning a SIGMOD submission against the data-management literature, covering coverage across SIGMOD/PACMMOD, PVLDB, ICDE, TODS, and PODS lines, decades-deep systems…

  • Works in 5 steps: Enumerate the paper's techniques and,… → Sweep the ACM DL for SIGMOD/PACMMOD and… → Check the documentation and changelogs… → …
  • Positioning a SIGMOD submission against the data-management literature
  • SKILL.md covers The five literature lines to…, Deep-history diligence, Concurrency in a rolling world and Exclusivity interacts with…, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Sigmod Related Work is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when positioning a SIGMOD submission against the data-management literature, covering coverage across SIGMOD/PACMMOD, PVLDB, ICDE, TODS, and PODS lines, decades-deep systems history, concurrent papers in rolling venues, industrial-system citations, and PACMMOD's substantial-overlap exclusivity rule.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Research & Science, covering Literature review, Positioning and messaging and Citation management. The repository describes itself as: Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. | 覆盖主流期刊的… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Positioning a SIGMOD submission against the data-management literature
  • Covering coverage across SIGMOD/PACMMOD
  • Decades-deep systems history
  • Concurrent papers in rolling venues

Example prompts

  • “/sigmod-related-work”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Enumerate the paper's techniques and, for each, its older names — ask
  2. Sweep the ACM DL for SIGMOD/PACMMOD and TODS hits, dblp for PVLDB and
  3. Check the documentation and changelogs of the three engines nearest
  4. Log every sweep with its date; the concurrency protocol above reuses
  5. File each hit as: ancestor / nearest neighbor / concurrent / deployed

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Sigmod Related Work loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 81 tokens; SKILL.md has 717 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~81
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.6k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 717 words, ~1,570 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/sigmod-related-work/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
sigmod-related-work
description
Use when positioning a SIGMOD submission against the data-management literature, covering coverage across SIGMOD/PACMMOD, PVLDB, ICDE, TODS, and PODS lines, decades-deep systems history, concurrent papers in rolling venues, industrial-system citations, and PACMMOD's substantial-overlap exclusivity rule.

Database research has unusually long memory and unusually fast turnover at the same time: reviewers expect a submission to know both the 1980s ancestor of its technique and the PVLDB paper from three months ago. Positioning at SIGMOD is therefore a two-clock problem, and the related-work section is where a PC of system builders first tests whether the authors know the field they are claiming to advance.

The five literature lines to cover

LineWhat it contributesCost of missing it
SIGMOD/PACMMOD + PVLDBThe current research frontier, updated quarterly/monthly"Unaware of concurrent work" reviews
ICDE and sibling conferencesAdjacent engineering resultsNovelty delta overstated
TODS and journal literatureConsolidated, definitive treatmentsComparing against superseded versions
PODS / theory venuesLower bounds, complexity, formal semanticsClaiming possibility where impossibility is known
Industrial systems + docsWhat deployed engines already do"Postgres has done this since 9.5" comments

The last line is venue-distinctive: at SIGMOD, a feature shipped in an open-source or commercial engine counts as prior art in reviewers' minds even when it was never formally published. Cite documentation, source code, or system papers for deployed behavior, and position against it explicitly.

Deep-history diligence

Many "new" ideas in data management are reinventions — adaptive indexing, fractional cascading, semantic caching, and differential update propagation have each been rediscovered more than once. Before claiming firstness:

  • Walk the technique's lineage backwards at least to its earliest SIGMOD/ VLDB/TODS appearance; the classics are findable via the ACM DL and dblp.
  • Search under the field's older vocabulary (e.g., "materialized view maintenance," not only "incremental computation").
  • If the ancestor exists, the honest and stronger claim is the delta: changed hardware assumptions, changed workload regime, new guarantee.

Concurrency in a rolling world

Your round-based submission competes with PVLDB's monthly acceptances and other rounds' PACMMOD issues appearing during your own review. Practical protocol: sweep new PACMMOD/PVLDB issues at submission, again before the feedback phase, and again when preparing a revision; cite genuinely concurrent work as concurrent, with a factual one-line distinction. A revision letter that quietly ignores a widely-seen concurrent paper invites the reviewer to raise it for you, on their terms.

Exclusivity interacts with positioning

PACMMOD's rule bars submitting work with substantial overlap in scientific content elsewhere while under review. This binds related-work strategy for your own pipeline: a companion paper from the same project must be different enough in results — not just in prose — and when it is, cite the anonymized companion and state the division of contributions plainly. Reviewers who smell salami-slicing check overlap aggressively.

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Contrast-form writing

The section should read as a set of distinctions, not an annotated bibliography:

text
Weak:   "Smith et al. [12] proposed an LSM compaction scheduler.
         Jones et al. [17] studied write amplification."
Strong: "Prior schedulers [12, 17] choose compaction targets from
         size ratios alone; neither observes query access patterns,
         so both degrade under the skewed reads we target (Sec 2).
         Our scheduler is the first to condition on both, and Sec 6.3
         compares against tuned versions of each."

Every cited cluster gets: what they established, the precise dimension where this paper departs, and — for the nearest neighbors — a pointer to the experiment where the departure is measured. A nearest neighbor cited but not benchmarked is the most predictable feedback-phase question at this venue.

A repeatable search protocol

  1. Enumerate the paper's techniques and, for each, its older names — ask a senior colleague or trace citation chains backwards for vocabulary.
  2. Sweep the ACM DL for SIGMOD/PACMMOD and TODS hits, dblp for PVLDB and ICDE, and the PODS series for impossibility results touching the claim.
  3. Check the documentation and changelogs of the three engines nearest your contribution for shipped equivalents.
  4. Log every sweep with its date; the concurrency protocol above reuses this log at feedback and revision time.
  5. File each hit as: ancestor / nearest neighbor / concurrent / deployed prior art — the four categories that demand different handling in text.

Placement tactics

SIGMOD tolerates related work early (Section 2) or late (before the conclusion). Choose early when the contribution is only legible against prior designs; choose late when the running example teaches faster than contrast does. Either way, the introduction still owes one paragraph of sharp positioning — reviewers form the novelty judgment on page one.

Surveys and tutorials as leverage

Data management maintains strong survey infrastructure — ACM Computing Surveys pieces, SIGMOD/VLDB tutorials, and the specialized book series many subfields keep current. Citing the definitive survey does double duty: it compresses background (protecting the 12-page budget) and signals that the firstness claim was made knowing the mapped terrain. When a tutorial by a likely PC member exists in your area, assume your reviewer wrote or read it, and position accordingly.

Output format

text
[Line coverage] five-line audit with gaps named
[Lineage check] earliest ancestor found; firstness claim adjusted
[Concurrent sweep] last swept date; papers requiring mention
[Nearest neighbors] work -> distinction -> comparing experiment
[Self-overlap] companion submissions and division-of-contribution note
[Rewrite targets] bibliography-style passages to convert to contrast form

© brycewang-stanford, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in SIGMOD-Skills/skills/sigmod-related-work of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Sigmod Related Work

What does Sigmod Related Work do?

A skill your agent uses when positioning a SIGMOD submission against the data-management literature, covering coverage across SIGMOD/PACMMOD, PVLDB, ICDE, TODS, and PODS lines, decades-deep systems…. Sigmod Related Work is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when positioning a SIGMOD submission against the data-management literature, covering coverage across SIGMOD/PACMMOD, PVLDB, ICDE, TODS, and PODS lines, decades-deep systems history, concurrent papers in rolling venues, industrial-system citations, and PACMMOD's substantial-overlap exclusivity rule.

When should I use Sigmod Related Work?

Sigmod Related Work fits situations like: positioning a SIGMOD submission against the data-management literature; covering coverage across SIGMOD/PACMMOD; decades-deep systems history; concurrent papers in rolling venues.

How do I install Sigmod Related Work in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill sigmod-related-work -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (SIGMOD-Skills/skills/sigmod-related-work in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/sigmod-related-work in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Sigmod Related Work in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill sigmod-related-work -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (SIGMOD-Skills/skills/sigmod-related-work in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/sigmod-related-work in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Sigmod Related Work in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill sigmod-related-work -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/sigmod-related-work, .gemini/skills/sigmod-related-work, .github/skills/sigmod-related-work and .opencode/skills/sigmod-related-work in your project.

What does Sigmod Related Work need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Sigmod Related Work is instructions for the agent only.

Does Sigmod Related Work access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Sigmod Related Work safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Sigmod Related Work use?

Sigmod Related Work is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Sigmod Related Work use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Sigmod Related Work?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,231 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

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